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STANOAP~tF,OfiM NO. 64
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GOVERNMENT
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The Director
DATE: August llH'/:~;~
FROM
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SUBJECT:
FLYING DISCS
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In connection with your request to be advised as to the facts
concerning newspaper reports of flying discs in the Portland area and the t;:: ~~rn:.,~_
reported conference of army officials in Portland concerning flying discs, [;~•i1e=:~'"--=----_-_-_­
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the Portland Office has advised that Leaveritt G. Richards, a~tion
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editor of the "Oregonian, '1 has stated that Captain Willia"'ll. L~vidson
and Lieutenant Frank i ~~wn. of the Fourth AAF Headquarters, San Francisco,
were in Portland on J~-27, 1947 . \Toile in Portland they interviewed Dick
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~nkin, an experienced pilot, who had reported that he observed, on June 11,
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a· fonnation of ten flying discs over Bakersfield, California.
Richards added
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that Davidson and Brown had also interviewed the following four ~xperienced
•pilots who vrere among the first, t~ report seeing discs, K~:met~rnold, b1l.sinessman
from Bo2f.e, Idaho; Captain E. J . 1\'omith, a co- pilot; Ral~tevens, United Airlines
and Dav~Johnson, aviation editor, Idaho11Statesman. 11 In order to determine the
purpose of t ~ese interviews Richards contacted Major General Twining of Wright Field,
Ohio , and frQ~ him gained the impression that the A.AF instituted this investigation
to wash out the disc reports since they a re definitely not of AAF origin.
On Friday, August 1, the plane in which AAF investigators, Captain
Davidson and Lieutenant Brovm, were flying, crashed at Kelso, Washington and both
were lci.lled. The wreckage was screened by AA:F Intelligence from McChord Field.
The
11Tacoma News Tribune 11 and through them t'.le United Press put out a story that
the plane vias carrying parts of a disc which had struck a boat owned by Harold
Dahl and ?'red Chrisman. It has also been inferred that this plane was sabotaged
to prevent these disc parts from being examined.
STATUS
Investigation by the Bureau has reflected th.d.t this plane was definitely
not carrying parts of a disc and t 11ere appears to be no substantiation of a sabotage
charge.
For your further information t here is attached a blind memorandum setting
forth in more detail the results of the investigation surrounding the above plane
crash.
No further inquiry is being made in this matter.
ACTION
Air Force Intelligence has been advised of the results of our investi­
gation.
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